Word: warded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...while still a student at Harvard, Mr. Davis presented the Davis Cup, the annual contest for which is now an international tennis classic. At first it was contested only between the U. S. and England, but gradually more and more nations have entered the competition. Mr. Davis (with Holcombe Ward) was National Doubles Champion (1899-1901). He has held also the National Clay Court, Western Doubles, Eastern Doubles, Middle States Doubles championships. He at various times took part in polo, boating, football, was the founder of the free public golf links at St. Louis...
...CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY- Ward and Gooch-Macmillan. Three volumes (Vol I-$6.00. Vols...
...Adolphus Ward and George Peabody Gooch, heading an imposing list of Cambridge dons, with here and there an "alien savant," have contributed a work of significance which is consistent in its excellence of quality and in its forceful authority with any work that has yet emanated from that seat of learning, universitas cantabrigiensis...
...probability, Senator Copeland is as surprised as everybody else. Slogans, as slogans, are not entirely out of date, but in recent years they have tended to ward modest, conservative phrases such as "Back to normalcy". Nothing so sweeping and red-blooded as "Beer, Bonus or Bust" has assailed American ears since "Fifty-four-forty or fight,"--Out possibly, this ardent, whole-hearted sort of thing is just what America needs in the political game...
...Republican, was a supporter of Grover Cleveland, and a partial supporter of Woodrow Wilson. He is a member of the Chicago law firm of Winston, Strawn and Shaw. Garrard Winston, one of his partners, is now Undersecretary of the Treasury. Mr. Strawn is Chairman of the Board of Montgomery Ward & Co. He is Chairman of the American Bar Asso- ciation's Committee on Legal Education. He is an ex-President of the Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association. He is chief counsel for the Chicago and Alton Railroad and his firm are general counsel for the Michigan Central...